Waiting for Leila
By: Achmat Dangor.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Ravan writers series
Publisher: Ravan Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Randburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: Samad's search for Leila is an odyssey through a world where the jackhammers are destroying more than bricks and mortar: they are tearing into the souls of people, brutalising them, leaving them with hearts as empty as the shop windows in Hanover Street. Waiting for Leila is a powerful indictment of a way of life to which so many were condemned; but despite this, as Samad says: 'Our ghosts are ineradicable.'.
Table of contents: title: Waiting for Leila; title: The homecoming; title: Jobman; title: A strange romance; title: The visit; title: In the shadow of paradise.